...the hell?

[sarahmichelef]

So I realized a couple of months ago that our recycling is not, in fact, commingle.  That is to say, they don't tell you that you have to sort it, but if you don't, the poor recycling guys have to do it as they load the truck.  Which just ain't right.  So we did the reasonable thing and started sorting.  We use a big 18-gallon tub with paper bags for glass, metal, and plastic, and a milk crate for paper.

Except today, somebody nicked our milk crate.  I'm irritated.

Comments

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

One of the advantages of living in the country. We recycle plastics, metals, glass and newspaper. Organics go on the compost pile. Non-recyclable paper gets burned. We go to the dump maybe once a month for the rest. Smell? What smell, we compost organics, the rest doesn't smell.
-- Dagonell

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

The city of Buffalo recycles all non-dirty paper, which is fantastic, as that's a really high proportion of the stuff that goes out of our house on a weekly basis. Despite living in the city, we could put a compost heap in on the side of the garage pretty easily. At the moment, though, we don't do enough gardening to actually USE the goodness that we would generate.